[whatwg] Text areas with pattern attributes?

[Michelangelo De Simone]

2009/8/24 Peter Kasting <pkasting at google.com>:

> I think "pattern" is significantly less valuable than "maxlength", but it
> wouldn't be too difficult to add support for it.  I vote weakly against.

More than that I'm a little concerned about potential performance
drawbacks: having a pattern to be applied completely on a veeery long
textarea could be a problem, such things can't be left to authors'
good will. IMO.

-- 
Bye,
Michelangelo